you have a right to your opinion, but just so you know, writing code has got nothing to do with cleaning your registry.

Its simply running just about any scanner and knowing what to delete and not to delete, a paid version or none paid version will not differer in the way they scan, some paid version might limit their searches to make the user think they are getting everything.

finding uninstallers or temp registry keys will not differ from paid version or none paid version again, cause its pretty much looking under certain keys and looking for certain values.

now writing codes, if by that you mean programing, has nothing to do with any of that, unless you want to write a program thats scans the registry and looks for certain keys and values, but why would anybody want to do that when there are many programs out there that do that, CCleaner for one.

when it comes to windows cleaning products, paid version are nothing but a scam to get you to pay for something a freeware can do, I would not say the same about security apps tho, in security apps I would not use a freeware app at all.

regkeys are text, they are not a file with source code, so again there is no code to read.

CCleaner will scan every single registry key you assign it to, I have not come across a scanner that does not scann as deep as you ask it to, if you have, then you found a crappy scanner, but CCleaner is not like that.

My word or what I think has nothing to do with what registry keys are or how they are scanned.

Just as an aside here, the Abraxis cleaner appears to no longer have a free option, the link on the first page is 'broken' for it apparently, and when I go to Abraxis' home page, only an option to buy a full product is offered. FYI.

stay away from registry cleaners unless you like to deal with all kinds of trouble.

I've been using CCleaner for over 1 year and its helped keep my PC running well. I'm not tech savvy enough to go into the registry & fix things so CCleaner has been a blessing for my current PC running Win XP. I hope that CCleaner will work well on my new DS rig that runs the 64 bit version of Win 7.

Revo Uninstaller - I purchased full version more or less a contribution out of appreciation for such an excellent program. I run it in advanced mode. I'm no longer afraid to try a download as I know I can get a good clean uninstall. Sometimes there is a empty folder to delete manually but I only find them when I'm doing manual cleaning. Been using Advanced System Care also. Works better than expected. It has turbo boost but I'm not crazy about such claims. I run a lean system. One of the best things I did was turn off performance counters. Comodo Clean My Computer is very aggressive and I have so mixed feelings only use it once in a while

This thread is hysterical..DST4ME keeps telling you folks to stay away from these things, and peolpe keep running them who have no idea what they are really doing and appear happy that these BS programs throw up numbers that say they have issues. Reminds me of the Great Triangle Fire in NYC...

I know this is way late question but was reading and I know my laptop has registry errors thru my Norton Tools do not know how to fix the one's it apparently can't fix. Would one of these help me? Not doing it if it will be too risky as I'm pretty new to it all. Got my DS order in Thanks largely to your advice but wanna clean this laptop so my kids will have a real good computer. Clean it up and all. Thanks again!

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